(Video) SF Unscripted Interview The King of Rent Control

Angelo Sangiacomo, SF Builder and his Trinity PLaza Project

If you live in San Francisco, you know all about Rent Control. You may wonder why we have rent control in San Francisco...well, this is an interview with the man that many consider the landlord that brought that on. From SFUnscripted.com: After a 30 year effort, Angelo Sangiacomo recently saw massive Market Street Residential Project, Trinity Plaza, approved for construction. While he's been a controversial figure, his recent victory is a crowning achievement of an unflappable builder and owner. We talk about his Italian background and the passion and disciline it brought to his efforts.

Alexandria accelerates Mission Bay

Demand for biotech space pushes up completion to 2011

Alexandria Real Estate Equities is speeding up its construction schedule and plans to build 2.2 million square feet of its life science complex at Mission Bay by 2011

The move comes as a response to robust demand for biotech space that even the most rosy-eyed Mission Bay booters did not anticipate.

Read the rest at the San Francisco Business Times, March 23-23, 2007 pg 1, J.K. Dineen